Jaunt by Donald Trump In the Middle East presented a entourage of a tech bros billionaire, a Fighter escortand commercial offers designed to reshape the world landscape of artificial intelligence.
During the final judgment of the tour in Abu Dhabi, the American president announced that anonymous American companies would join forces with the United Arab Emirates to create the largest AI data group outside America.
Trump said US companies will help G42, an Emirati company, to build five Gigawatts of IT capacity in water AI.
Sheikh Tahnoon Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, who directs the Council for Artificial Intelligence and advanced technologies of the United Arab Emirates and is in charge of a fortune of 1.5 billion of dollars aimed at strengthening the capacities of AI, said that the passage would strengthen the position of the United Arab Emirates “as a center for the Center for the Rail Transformer advantages for humanity ”.
A few days earlier, while Trump arrived in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia announced human, an AI investment company belonging to the kingdom’s public investment fund. The Saudi company has been launched with successful offers already inked with NVIDIA, AMD, QUALCOMM and AWS – Technology giants capable of building the infrastructure necessary to form and supply advanced AI models.
Trump said in a speech In Riyadh, American and Saudi companies would make agreements worth hundreds of billions of dollars, emphasizing infrastructure, technology and defense.
Transactions concluded in the Middle East this week aim to strengthen the world importance of American silicon and AI, but they will also help nations such as Saudi Arabia play a more important role in the global breed to develop and distribute advanced technology.
“This will help the Saudis and the United Arab Emirates to become more important players in the supply of IA infrastructure,” explains Paul Triolo, partner of the DGA-Albright Stonebridge Group, a geopolitical advice group. “It’s a big problem to have access to these GPUs.”
The Agreement of Saudi Arabia with Nvidia, which dominates the IA training equipment market, will amount to 500 megawatts of capacity and will involve “several hundred thousands of the most advanced GPUs in Nvidia in the next five years”, declared the company in a statement.
According to an estimateThis could result in around 250,000 of the most advanced chips in Nvidia, which are four times better in training and 30 times better in inference (racing models that have already been formed) than the best offer. This capacity could lead Saudi Arabia to create border AI models.
AWS and Human have said that they would invest $ 5 billion in infrastructure in Saudi Arabia jointly. AWS said in March that it would build an AI infrastructure area in the country, investing more than $ 5.3 billion. Human and AMD have said that they would spend $ 10 billion on AI infrastructure in Saudi Arabia and the United States over the next five years.
Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and the other nations in the region have large amounts of oil money, access to a lot of power and a strong desire to move to more high -tech economies by building advanced technological infrastructure. However, countries also have important commercial links with China, which sells technology in the region, placing them at the link of an increasing geopolitical rivalry on the future of AI.
Diffusion rule
A few days before Trump’s visit to the Middle East, his administration reversed a major decision from the Biden era which would have limited the sale of peak fleas around the world. The directive has created levels of nations with different access to advanced fleas and sought to limit the number of tokens in Saudi Arabia and water could buy. Critics of the rule suggested that he could push some countries to buy Chinese technology instead.
In a statement Announcing the change, the American office of industry and security said that Biden’s rule “would have stifled American innovation and business saddle with new heavy regulatory requirements” and “undermined American diplomatic relations with dozens of countries by retrograd to second level status”.
